Flash #196 [Direct Sales]

(May 2003)

Helpless (Table of Contents: 1)

The Flash / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Geoff Johns

Pencils

Phil Winslade

Inks

Phil Winslade

Colors

James Sinclair

Letters

Kurt Hathaway

Genre

superhero

Characters

Detective Fred Chyre; The Flash [Wally West]; The Flash [Barry Allen] (cameo); Detective Jared Morillo; Linda Park-West; Peek-a-Boo [Lashawn Baez]; Professor Zoom [Eobard Thawne] (cameo); Hunter Zolomon

Universe

DC : mainstream

Synopsis

When Flash refuses to go back in time and change the events of his life, Hunter Zolomon breaks into the Flash Museum and uses the Cosmic Treadmill. Meanwhile, Peek-A-Boo tries again to save her father's life.

Reprints

• in The Flash (DC, 2002 series) #[4] - Blitz ([September] 2004)
• in The Flash by Geoff Johns (DC, 2015 series) #3 ([December] 2016)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

DC in Demand / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

[Various] (Table of Contents: 3)

advertisement / 20 pages (report information)

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Synopsis

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